Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oneself to a certain low level of comfort one is freed from the urge to participate in the system. The only thing that keeps a person grinding away at an unfulfilling 9-to-5 job, dressed neatly in suit and tie, hair cut short to acceptable levels, is the lure of personal advancement with its accompanying psychic and material benefits...
...about them onscreen; the folks just sit around talking about their problems and drinking black coffee in the kitchen. The only time there is any live action in the typical soaper, it seems, is Friday. That's when the writ ers always slip in the "tease" that will lure the listeners back on Monday...
Light from a single, well-defined source holds such a strong attraction for night-flying moths that a flickering candle flame can lure them to a fiery death. But when light comes from all angles, as in a brightly lit room or outdoors during daylight, some moths cease all activity, as if they had been "turned off." Scientists have long wondered: What throws the switch...
...over the racial issue, at least among many Northern and Southern whites. The Southerners have tended to become less conservative, the Northerners less liberal. Further, middle-road Republicans like Nixon discovered big, centralized government as a target long before Wallace arose as a threat and Southern Republicanism as a lure. It is still an attractive mark to those in all regions who view the Federal Government as an inefficient leviathan. That this position also appeals to the old states'rights sentiment, the resistance to change imposed by alien authority, is something of a bonus for Nixon. The Southern attitude...
...minutes, 40 seconds an hour-about one-third less than the U.S. average. Newscasts are scheduled at unconventional times, such as 20 minutes after the hour. Thus, when the competition is carrying news, Drake-trained deejays run a "music sweep" (three or four recordings back-to-back) to lure away dial switchers...